Word: protractedness
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+ With 7,500 Syrian troops in West Beirut and an additional 25,000 in north and east Lebanon, Assad has been embarrassed by Glass's kidnaping. Assad's dilemma: fighting the Beirut terrorists would, in effect, mean confronting their chief patron, Iran, which Damascus supports in its protracted war with...
A flurry of headline-grabbing libel cases over the past several years, most followed by protracted legal preliminaries, prompted fears about the effectiveness of the First Amendment. Now that the dust has settled, however, it seems clear that the news media have prevailed, at least in the court of law...
Corporations fighting off takeover bids have devised sundry exotic defenses: concocting so-called poison pills of potential debt, filing protracted lawsuits or amassing the stock of would-be acquisitors. Lately a new strategy seems to be gaining favor: paying gobs of borrowed money to all stockholders, including unwelcome suitors, in...
It is certainly true that the circumstances, legal and geopolitical, have denied Linnas the sort of defense he would be entitled to if tried in the U.S. But his case has received eight years of protracted review, during which various judges have concluded that despite his claim of innocence, he...
Scattered applause rippled through Peking's Great Hall of the People last week as the solemn figure in the gray business suit nervously took a seat at the podium. The surprise arrival was none other than the recently disgraced Hu Yaobang, 71, who was purged in January as Communist Party...